Today’s heated arguments about critical race theory shouldn’t surprise us because they aren’t new. Indeed, one of the best-known classroom experiments to combat racism remains a divisive subject more ...
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise." As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, ...
RICEVILLE - The third-graders in Jane Elliott's Riceville classroom were scheduled to study an American Indian meditation on April 5, 1968. But the night before - after learning that civil rights ...
RICEVILLE - The author who sparked controversy with his account of cultural tensions in Postville is tackling what he predicts will be an equally touchy subject. University of Iowa journalism ...
RICEVILLE | This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s also the 50th anniversary of Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes experiment.